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Ms Knight was kidnapped by Castro in 2002 when he offered to give her a lift to see her two-year-old son who was taken away from her because her mother's boyfriend had beaten him.

In an interview that aired on Tuesday, Ms Knight told how Castro lured her into his home with the promise of giving her a puppy for her son.

She knew something was wrong when she could not hear any puppies inside Castro's home but it was already too late; Castro had already grabbed her and tied her up sideways to the wall "like an ornament".

Castro eventually took her to his basement and tied her neck and body to a pole with a rusty chain.

"He was obsessed with prostitutes and also he thought I was a 13-year-old prostitute," said Ms Knight, who was 21 at the time.
"When he found out my real age, he got mad."

Every Christmas Castro taunted Ms Knight about her son spending the holiday with other people.

When she fell pregnant with his son he hit her in the stomach with a barbell to abort the fetus.

"I hated him," she told Dr Phil.

"I told him that he was a monster."

Ms Knight was forced to live in a fly-infested room that was "full of garbage, knee high" comprised of rotten food that Castro refused to dispose of.

Ms Knight said that she believed there were previous victims before her.

Ms Knight said Castro constantly beat and raped her and was obsessed with a television program about people with strange sexual problems and fetishes that he would then force Ms Knight to re-enact.

Eight months into her imprisonment she met 16-year-old Amanda Berry, a girl that she recognised from school, but she would not see her again for months as they were kept apart and never allowed to be alone together.

"Sometimes she would cry and I'll tell her everything will be okay and one day we'll get home," Ms Knight said.

"We just have to wait it out."

In August Castro pleaded guilty to 937 counts of rape, torture, kidnapping and aggravated murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole with an additional 1000 years sentence.

He was found hanged in his cell on September 3, a death believed to be an accidental suicide during an act of auto-erotic asphyxiation.